Humanoid says its wheeled industrial robot has a $2.4 billion pipeline, but the 34,000 reported preorders remain nonbinding customer commitments.

XPeng says the first IRON humanoid built on its automated line walked off under its own power, with mass production targeted by the end of 2026.

Galbot’s RoboGesture framework generates speech aligned gestures in real time, with safety controls intended for use on physical humanoid robots.

A Reuters review found PLA research, tenders and simulations focused on humanoid perception, dexterous work, teleoperation and urban combat.

Figure AI plans to train its humanoids on a large Nscale computing cluster, with initial systems scheduled to come online in the second half of 2027.

Unitree is displaying the G1 at IFA 2026 while reported Bluetooth exploits, absent public patches and differing EU and US rules complicate procurement.

Sam Altman says OpenAI will build a humanoid, while robotics job listings point to custom actuators and a vertically integrated hardware program.

ROBOTIS has launched Open Humanoid GYM, giving students a route to train full body behaviors in simulation and deploy them on its K1 humanoid.

Beijing’s RoboMIND dataset has reached a reported 20 million downloads, with 300,000 dual arm trajectories covering more than 700 real world tasks.

CJ Logistics has put two dual arm humanoids on a live Olive Young packing line, inserting cushioning paper at a distribution center in Yongin, South Korea.